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Institute for Advancing Community Engagement

Beyond Today

Through fostering effective connections between teaching, research and Community Engagement, we seek to collaborate with stakeholders to achieve a better tomorrow in the communities with whom ACU engages.

Professor Jude Butcher, cfc
Director
Institute for Advancing Community Engagement

About the Institute

IACE facilitates University-community partnerships that enhances the dignity and well being of people and communities.

Community Engagement

ACU National�s community engagement aims to produce just and sustainable outcomes in the interests of people, communities and the University.

Beyond Disadvantage

Reaching out to those marginalised in our society and most in need.

Beyond Borders

Participating in action for change beyond our national boundaries.

Beyond Differences

Promoting community engagement enriched by inter-faith and inter-cultural understandings.

Catholic Identity and Mission

As a Catholic university, ACU National participates in an intellectual tradition based in the Christian gospels in which principles of human dignity, social justice, and the common good have been developed and articulated for some 2000 years.